The content of an image can be summarized by a set of homogeneous regions in an appropriate feature space. When exact shape is not important, the regions can be represented by sim...
Recent efforts attempt to combine together information of different passive methods. Critical issues in this research are the choice of data and how to combine such data in order ...
Abstract. Molecular shapes play an important role in molecular interactions, e.g., between a protein and a ligand. The `outer' shape of a molecule can be approximated by its s...
We propose a new method for handwritten word-spotting which does not require prior training or gathering examples for querying. More precisely, a model is trained "on the fly...
The goal of my dissertation research is to investigate the combination of new evidence sources for improving information retrieval on speech collections. The utility of these evid...